Then there's a track called Panamericana that's influenced by the road that crosses all America from north to south." I had the chance to meet (legendary blues musician) Dr John and he played Hammond B3 on the first track Tango Square. "On our new album we tried to make a bridge with the blues and the music of New Orleans which also have an African background.
We composed 20 tracks in one month, which is a lot for us, then spent a month recording, mainly in Paris. We decided to be very intuitive and spontaneous in songwriting and try to be very sophisticated in the production. "We really had a different plan for this new album.
Solal returned to Gotan Project, starting work on Tango 3.0 in Paris in January last year. To get away from the tango and electronica for a while, Solal moved to Nashville, Tennessee, to pursue his other love: country and bluegrass music. Its mission was to explore more deeply the folkloric music of Argentina and to work with local musicians.Īfter touring Lunatico around the world for a year and a half, the group released a double live album (Gotan Project Live) and then the members took time to explore their own musical interests. But back then we had no idea what we were doing."įor its second album Lunatico four years ago, Gotan Project recorded in the famed ION Studio in Buenos Aires where tango greats such as Astor Piazzolla had once laid down their music on giant reel-to-reel machines. "When we first brought beats and percussion to the music on the first album La Revancha del Tango (released in 2000), musicologists said that we had brought the music back to its African roots. "It's very funny because sometimes you do things without thinking," Solal says. The earliest forms of tango were much more percussive but the music's character was redefined after the start of European immigration when it became less tribal and more associated with the brothels of Buenos Aires and Paris. The heart of the Gotan Project's sound is tango, the erotically charged dance music once described as a union of sin and salvation that was born in African communities in Argentina during the 19th century.
Now the trio returns to the Perth Concert Hall on December 12 to do it all over again as part of its world tour promoting third album Tango 3.0. Gotan (a twist on the word "tango") was the musical hit of the 2007 Perth International Arts Festival, where it thrilled the audience with a concert that was equal parts classical recital, cool contemporary electronica and atmospheric cinematic experience. We like to bring tango out of its usual territory and establish a bridge with other music." "We try to preserve the class and elegance of tango as well as bring in new instruments including strings, brass and electric guitars. "Tango music is pretty complex in some ways," says electric guitarist, bassist and keys player Philippe Cohen Solal, over the phone from Paris, about the traditional music that by the 1960s had become a ballroom relic.
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